Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath are just the latest reminder of the West’s complete and enduring failure to engage in any meaningful and productive way with the world of Islam. For almost ten centuries, attempts at understanding have been held hostage to a grand, t...
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oai:lib.umy.ac.id:526262021-06-16T13:06:22ZIslam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on TerrorismJONATHAN LYONSIslam—Public opinion, Islamophobia—Europe, Islamic countries—Relations—Europe, Europe—Relations—Islamic countriesthe terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath are just the latest reminder of the West’s complete and enduring failure to engage in any meaningful and productive way with the world of Islam. For almost ten centuries, attempts at understanding have been held hostage to a grand, totalizing Western narrative that shapes what can and, more important, what cannot be said and thought about Islam and the Muslims. This is no less true today, from the political arena to the counterterrorism think tanks, from the academy to the Internet “blogosphere,†than it was in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and the courts of the European Crusaders. Further, this same narrative, which reflects what I call the anti-Islam discourse, exercises a profound and corrosive effect on a range of issues across the contemporary social sciences, including sociology, politics, the history of ideas, law, religion, international relations, human rights, and security studies. It casts a shadow over the way social scientists of various stripes think and write and speak about Islam and the Muslims. It shapes how social scientists listen to what Muslims say and interpret what they do. And it guides their research programs and publications, their private advice to governments,and their statements to the press and the public at large. These developments have, in turn, left Western societies both intellectually unprepared and politically unable to respond successfully to some of the most significant challenges of the early twenty-first century—the global rise of Islamist political power, the more narrow emergence of religious violence and terrorism, clashes between established social values and multicultural rights on the part of growing Muslim immigrant populations, and so on. Columbia University Press2012eBookebook 348Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52626 |
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Islam—Public opinion, Islamophobia—Europe, Islamic countries—Relations—Europe, Europe—Relations—Islamic countries JONATHAN LYONS Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath are
just the latest reminder of the West’s complete and enduring failure to
engage in any meaningful and productive way with the world of Islam. For
almost ten centuries, attempts at understanding have been held hostage to a
grand, totalizing Western narrative that shapes what can and, more important,
what cannot be said and thought about Islam and the Muslims. This is
no less true today, from the political arena to the counterterrorism think
tanks, from the academy to the Internet “blogosphere,†than it was in the
medieval halls of the Roman Curia and the courts of the European Crusaders.
Further, this same narrative, which reflects what I call the anti-Islam discourse,
exercises a profound and corrosive effect on a range of issues across
the contemporary social sciences, including sociology, politics, the history of
ideas, law, religion, international relations, human rights, and security studies.
It casts a shadow over the way social scientists of various stripes think and
write and speak about Islam and the Muslims. It shapes how social scientists
listen to what Muslims say and interpret what they do. And it guides their
research programs and publications, their private advice to governments,and their statements to the press and the public at large. These developments
have, in turn, left Western societies both intellectually unprepared
and politically unable to respond successfully to some of the most significant
challenges of the early twenty-first century—the global rise of Islamist political
power, the more narrow emergence of religious violence and terrorism,
clashes between established social values and multicultural rights on the
part of growing Muslim immigrant populations, and so on.
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JONATHAN LYONS |
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JONATHAN LYONS |
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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism |
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islam through western eyes: from the crusades to the war on terrorism |
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Columbia University Press |
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2012 |
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http://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52626 |
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ebook 348 |
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